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zqwzzle ,

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/6e9f9006-2394-4996-83d3-7c87f7625f6d.jpeg

nilloc ,

That point of sale system seemed to handle this perfectly.

TootSweet , (edited )

Back when I was the “new guy” code monkey at a fairly sizeable brick-and-mortor-and-e-retailer, I let the intrusive thoughts win and did some impromptu QA on the e-commerce site. (In the test environment. Don’t worry.)

It handled things like trying to put “0” or “-1” or “9999999999999” or “argyle” quantity of an item in the cart just fine.

But I know my 2’s-compliment signed integers. So I tried putting “0xFFFFFFFF” quantity of an item in my cart. Lo and behold, there was now -1 quantity of that item in my cart and my subtotal was also negative. I could also do things like put a $100.00 thing in the cart and then -1 quantity of something that cost $99.00 in the cart and have a $1.00 subtotal.

(IIRC, there was some issue with McDonalds ordering kiosks at one time where you could compose an order with negative quantities of things to get an arbitrarily large unauthorized discount.)

The rest of my team thought I was a fucking genius from that moment on. I highly recommend if you’re ever the “new guy” dev on a team and want to appear indispensible, find a bug that it would never occur to a QA engineer who doesn’t have a computer science degree to even test for.

SpaceNoodle ,

You’re hired

The_v ,

A long time ago I was the guinea pig/first user for a company developed system.

I often had my 1 year old at the time son with me when I worked on the weekend. He had a great time smashing buttons on the keyboard and randomly clicking the mouse on the test version. He found most of the bugs.

nilloc ,

You must have been lying close attention to see how they were triggered though.

Bug reports can be tough if you can’t repeat them. I’m glad you got some bonding time with littlie though, especially if you were on the clock.

pineapplelover ,

I thought testing 2s complement was a common thing. That’s like your second year cs class

xmunk ,

Orders a WWWWWWWWWWWW

dactylotheca OP ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

Orders a

satanmat ,

Orders a <null>

blackluster117 ,
@blackluster117@possumpat.io avatar

Orders a -1

Wilzax ,

Orders a

Orders a beer"; DROP TABLE beverages; –

Orders a beer%s%s%s%s

Apytele ,

No plan survives first contact with the enemy.

dactylotheca OP ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

Some plans less so than others.

Also, I like this framing of users as the enemy. Matches my experience, really.

eestileib ,

I still fondly remember the QA guy on the first consumer electronics project I worked on. He didn’t do scripting or test harnesses or dependency injection, he used the product and filed good bugs telling us what would fuck up our customer’s expectations.

A good QA person helps with product design too if you let them.

Andy B, I’d work with you again in a second.

badcommandorfilename ,

Andy B, - good first name for a tester

eestileib ,

He was exactly the kind of guy who doesn’t get hired any more because companies “know better”.

And stuff gets crappier every year somehow.

pyre ,

look at product testing Andy over here

DogWater ,

A or B lol

Squibbles ,

How did you find crowdstrikes test plan?

someguy3 , (edited )

Orders a refreshing drink. Only 1 customer is lit on fire.

dactylotheca OP ,
@dactylotheca@suppo.fi avatar

Wasn’t expecting a fucking rainforest

andioop ,

I enjoyed this animation of the meme in the OP.

snooggums ,
@snooggums@midwest.social avatar

Should have tested for #^%_@()

kionite231 ,

Do they mean something or they are just random punctuations

snooggums ,
@snooggums@midwest.social avatar

Random alphanumeric.

metaStatic ,

I walk in and order 257 beers.

Alexstarfire ,

You give the bar 253 beers?

acockworkorange ,

A QA engineer walks into a bar. Runs into a bar. Somersaults into a bar. Moonwalks into a bar. Crawls into a bar.

Kojichan ,
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Oh! This was a good one! I remember reading this on Bash.org. ahh, thanks for the reminder.

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